The function behaves like the default `type` function from Lua's
standard library, but is aware of pandoc userdata types. A typical
use-case would be to determine the type of a metadata value.
- `walk` methods are added to `Block` and `Inline` values; the methods
are similar to `pandoc.utils.walk_block` and
`pandoc.utils.walk_inline`, but apply to filter also to the element
itself, and therefore return a list of element instead of a single
element.
- Functions of name `Doc` are no longer accepted as alternatives for
`Pandoc` filter functions. This functionality was undocumented.
The new `pandoc.Inlines` function behaves identical on string input, but
allows other Inlines-like arguments as well.
The `pandoc.utils.text` function could be written as
function pandoc.utils.text (x)
assert(type(x) == 'string')
return pandoc.Inlines(x)
end
The marshaling functions for pandoc's AST are extracted into a separate
package. The package comes with a number of changes:
- Pandoc's List module was rewritten in C, thereby improving error
messages.
- Lists of `Block` and `Inline` elements are marshaled using the new
list types `Blocks` and `Inlines`, respectively. These types
currently behave identical to the generic List type, but give better
error messages. This also opens up the possibility of adding
element-specific methods to these lists in the future.
- Elements of type `MetaValue` are no longer pushed as values which
have `.t` and `.tag` properties. This was already true for
`MetaString` and `MetaBool` values, which are still marshaled as Lua
strings and booleans, respectively. Affected values:
+ `MetaBlocks` values are marshaled as a `Blocks` list;
+ `MetaInlines` values are marshaled as a `Inlines` list;
+ `MetaList` values are marshaled as a generic pandoc `List`s.
+ `MetaMap` values are marshaled as plain tables and no longer
given any metatable.
- The test suite for marshaled objects and their constructors has
been extended and improved.
- A bug in Citation objects, where setting a citation's suffix
modified it's prefix, has been fixed.
The function converts a string to `Inlines`, treating interword spaces
as `Space`s or `SoftBreak`s. If you want a `Str` with literal spaces,
use `pandoc.Str`.
Closes: #7709
Using a Lua string where a list of inlines is expected will cause the
string to be split into words, replacing spaces and tabs into
`pandoc.Space()` elements and newlines into `pandoc.SoftBreak()`.
The previous behavior was to treat the string `s` as `{pandoc.Str(s)}`.
The old behavior can be recovered by wrapping the string into a table
`{s}`.
Reader options can now be passed as an optional third argument to
`pandoc.read`. The object can either be a table or a ReaderOptions value
like `PANDOC_READER_OPTIONS`. Creating new ReaderOptions objects is
possible through the new constructor `pandoc.ReaderOptions`.
Closes: #7656
Comparisons of Citation values are performed in Haskell; values are
equal if they represent the same Haskell value. Converting a Citation
value to a string now yields its native Haskell string representation.
Properties of Block values are marshalled lazily, which generally
improves performance considerably. Script users may also notice the
following differences:
- Block element properties can no longer be accessed by numerical
indexing of the `.c` field. The `.c` property now serves as an alias
for `.content`, so some filter that used this undocumented method
for property access may continue to work, while others will need to
be updated and use proper property names.
- The marshalled Block elements now have a `show` method, and a
`__tostring` metamethod. Both return the Haskell string
representation of the element.
- Block values now have the Lua type `userdata` instead of `table`.
- Adds a new `pandoc.AttributeList()` constructor, which creates the
associative attribute list that is used as the third component of
`Attr` values. Values of this type can often be passed to constructors
instead of `Attr` values.
- `AttributeList` values can no longer be indexed numerically.
The new HsLua version takes a somewhat different approach to marshalling
and unmarshalling, relying less on typeclasses and more on specialized
types. This allows for better performance and improved error messages.
Furthermore, new abstractions allow to document the code and exposed
functions.
A new type `SimpleTable` is made available to Lua filters. It is
similar to the `Table` type in pandoc versions before 2.10;
conversion functions from and to the new Table type are provided.
Old filters using tables now require minimal changes and can use,
e.g.,
if PANDOC_VERSION > {2,10,1} then
pandoc.Table = pandoc.SimpleTable
end
and
function Table (tbl)
tbl = pandoc.utils.to_simple_table(tbl)
…
return pandoc.utils.from_simple_table(tbl)
end
to work with the current pandoc version.
The PandocError type is used throughout the Lua subsystem, all Lua
functions throw an exception of this type if an error occurs. The
`LuaException` type is removed and no longer exported from
`Text.Pandoc.Lua`. In its place, a new constructor `PandocLuaError` is
added to PandocError.
Lists of Inline and Block elements can now be filtered via `Inlines` and
`Blocks` functions, respectively. This is helpful if a filter conversion
depends on the order of elements rather than a single element.
For example, the following filter can be used to remove all spaces
before a citation:
function isSpaceBeforeCite (spc, cite)
return spc and spc.t == 'Space'
and cite and cite.t == 'Cite'
end
function Inlines (inlines)
for i = #inlines-1,1,-1 do
if isSpaceBeforeCite(inlines[i], inlines[i+1]) then
inlines:remove(i)
end
end
return inlines
end
Closes: #6038
The functions `table.insert`, `table.remove`, and `table.sort` are added
to pandoc.List elements. They can be used as methods, e.g.
local numbers = pandoc.List {2, 3, 1}
numbers:sort() -- numbers is now {1, 2, 3}
Attr values can now be given as normal Lua tables; this can be used as a
convenient alternative to define Attr values, instead of constructing
values with `pandoc.Attr`. Identifiers are taken from the *id* field,
classes must be given as space separated words in the *class* field. All
remaining fields are included as misc attributes.
With this change, the following lines now create equal elements:
pandoc.Span('test', {id = 'test', class = 'a b', check = 1})
pandoc.Span('test', pandoc.Attr('test', {'a','b'}, {check = 1}))
This also works when using the *attr* setter:
local span = pandoc.Span 'text'
span.attr = {id = 'test', class = 'a b', check = 1}
Furthermore, the *attributes* field of AST elements can now be a plain
key-value table even when using the `attributes` accessor:
local span = pandoc.Span 'test'
span.attributes = {check = 1} -- works as expected now
Closes: #5744
Text.Pandoc.Shared:
+ Remove `Element` type [API change]
+ Remove `makeHierarchicalize` [API change]
+ Add `makeSections` [API change]
+ Export `deLink` [API change]
Now that we have Divs, we can use them to represent the structure
of sections, and we don't need a special Element type.
`makeSections` reorganizes a block list, adding Divs with
class `section` around sections, and adding numbering
if needed.
This change also fixes some longstanding issues recognizing
section structure when the document contains Divs.
Closes#3057, see also #997.
All writers have been changed to use `makeSections`.
Note that in the process we have reverted the change
c1d058aeb1
made in response to #5168, which I'm not completely
sure was a good idea.
Lua modules have also been adjusted accordingly.
Existing lua filters that use `hierarchicalize` will
need to be rewritten to use `make_sections`.
